A recent water survey shows that Californians actually increased their water use amid the worst drought in decades. How bad is the drought, and how bad is it that some Californians (read southern coastal cities) are not reducing water consumption?

It's World Population Day. There are over 7 billion people on the planet. It's easy, though, to get caught up in the numbers. Real solutions go beyond the numbers, and should remind us that we are dealing with real people. What's working?

For three months in a row, carbon levels have remained above 400 ppm. It's been a few years since atmospheric concentrations have been this high - somewhere between 800,000 and 15 million years ago. Should we care?

Global Forest Watch, an online mapping tool for detecting forest change, launched less than six months ago. Since then, the site is already being put to use by a number of governments and environmental organizations to better protect their forests.

The U.S. Supreme Court continues to push corporate rights over peoples' rights, this time with a ruling that family-owned corporations are not required to provide health coverage for contraceptives if they object on religious grounds.

It's World Environment Day, and a good time to reflect on words of wisdom from Wangari Maathai, as the world grapples with a changing climate and increasing environmental degradation. The late environmentalist left many words of wisdom and hope for us.

Small farmers often twice as productive as large farms and are more environmentally sustainable, yet the world's food supplies are at risk because farmland is becoming rapidly concentrated in the hands of elites and corporations.

Even though there has now been many decades of environmental laws and regulations, the state of our environment is worsening. What if people changed how they viewed nature? What concepts are out there to help make a shift?